Wednesday, January 10, 2018

After Winter Comes

Warning:  many of the clues and answers to this puzzle are unconventional.

ACROSS:                                                                    DOWN:

1.  Week long recess                                                                         1.  Cover
12. Relaxation destination                                                                2.  To leap about
15.  Liked better than                                                                        3.  Paul of Mad About You
16.  Very long time                                                                           4.  Conditional direction
17.  Sheriff task                                                                                 5.  Impossible for a poet
18.  Nice friend                                                                                 6.  A bunch of people, abbr.
19.  Belgian painter James                                                                7.  'Dude'
20.  Special                                                                                        8.  Corp. division
21.   High flyer                                                                                  9.  Asner and others
22.  Welsh John                                                                               10.  Just had
26.  A 'Brute" usually follows them                                                11.  Ring results
28.  Pluck                                                                                         12.  Playful swimmer
31.  Brooklyn ballers                                                                       13.  Bigheaded
32.Compromises                                                                             14.  Licorice flavored, overseas
33.  Metric measure                                                                         22.  Legal wording
34.  Bananarama top ten hit from'84                                               23.  Can't be dated
36.  Just stay there                                                                           24.  Something Ceasar wouldn't say
37.  Two-less-than average scores                                                   25.  Coffee order
38.  Red and black, for roulette                                                       26.  Chopper coating
39.  Size comparison                                                                       27.  Patron saint for headaches
43.  Skates, e.g.                                                                               29.  My Little Pony unicorn
44.  Angry at                                                                                   30.  "If you say so"
45.  Fantasy book publisher                                                            34.  Empty space in a forest
46.  Deface                                                                                      35.  Fr. lass
47.  Greatly honor                                                                           38.  Extremely shameless
49.  Russian arm                                                                             40.  Canned heat
50.  Spanish poet Federico                                                              41.    ⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽  mule
56.  Diamond ranking                                                                     42.  "Uh, cut boards"
57.  Fisher No. 1 from 1954                                                           46.  Remote function
 58.  Sci. or lib. art college course                                                  47.  Online news source
59.  London bridge, in rhyme                                                         48.  Nick's The ⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽  Family
                                                                                                        50.  Comp. file type
                                                                                                        51.  Comedic actress Gasteyer
                                                                                                        52.  Something found on a tree
                                                                                     53.  Cartoon frame
                                                                                                         54.  Ugandan dictator Amin
                                                                                                         55.  Novelist Rand 


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